03-06-2008
sed to replace text with a variable
I'm trying to replace text in a file with text from a variable
I have the following in my script, but its not working:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "Enter the path to load scripts"
read x
echo "updating the templates"
sed "s/CHANGE_ME_TO_LOAD_PATH/"$x"/g" LoadFiles.sh > LoadFiles2.sh
I thought using double quotes instead of single quotes would allow me to substitue a variable with sed.
Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong here?
thanks
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